Three power play goals and a shorthanded marker drove the Blues past the Minnesota Wild, 6-3, Saturday night in S t Louis.
Jaden Schwartz struck twice for the Blues and Sammy Blais, Paul Stastny, Dmitrij Jaskin, Kyle Brodziak all scored in the win.
For Blais, it was his first NHL goal.
“It’s nice to have my first goal in a win,” Blais said. “… I played my game. I was good on the forecheck, I finished my hits, and it’s nice to have a goal at the end. I’m just going to try to keep going like that.”
“Some big goals,” Blues coach Mike Yeo said. “Timely goals for sure. That’s nice.”
Jake Allen made 22 saves to pick up the win a night after St Louis lost 2-0 to Nashville Predators.
“I thought we came out strong. I don’t think we were too happy with our start [Friday] night and I think we wanted to come back and take that out. Both teams are playing on a back-to-back, a little less juice, but obviously I thought we started strong in the first period,” Allen said.
Charlie Coyle, Zack Mitchell and Eric Staal had the Wild goals.
“When you try to chase the game it’s really difficult because when you make a mistake, you’ve got to press and they take advantage of it and it’s usually in the net,” Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said.
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Devan Dubnyk made 34 saves in taking the loss.
St Louis took a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes and had the Wild on their heels most of the night.
“You never want to go down three to this team,” Dubnyk said. “One-nothing is fine. Obviously you don’t want to give up a second one but we did a good job hanging in there and coming back, but it seemed like every time we made a play to get it within a goal or two goals, we did something that brought us back out of it. We could probably look at a couple of specific plays that took us out of that one.”
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